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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER Should hfno Heres a Simple Way To Make a Slip Cover a number of ways THERE are slip covers. This sketch Proposes Rural Social Security Minus Red Tape tern from unbleached muslin, or an old sheet, if you do not have the confidence to fit the fabric right on the chair. 0 Simple Stamp Plan Evolved to Record Mod- - By EDWARD EMERINE WNU Features. A good place to visit better place to live. shows the method of making a pat- pst Beneficiary Payments and Avoid a Complicated Bookkeeping Duties. That is Louisianas boast It is Louisianas promise By BAUKHAGE backed by every square foo of land from the pine forests of the northern uplands to the marshes of the Mississippi News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. dorsed It in the last election campaign, the social security board last month broached the subject to congressional attention once again, and there is a 'bill which would accomplish it the Wagner - Murray - Dingell bill. This bill was sent to the house ways and means committee on May 24, 1945, and its still there, gathering dust. It is doubtful that the committee will take any action unless some pressure is brought to bear by interested parties. Of course, there is opposition to the idea in some quarters. Some persons who oppose Including farmers, and other workers not now insured, advance the argument. They say that as more and more persons In occupations covered by social security reach the retirement age, the amounts paid into the trust fund arent going to be sufficient to pay them off, unless the treasury digs down and adds public funds. In 1939, the lawmakers threshed this out and came up with a plan to make the fund continuously They decided to make the contributions high enough so that the government would not have to help out. They agreed to keep the present 1 per cent from employee and 1 per cent from employer rate until 1943. After that, theyd increase it to 2 per cent each; then to 2.5 per cent; then to 3 per cent from 1948 on. However, congress deferred the rate increase during the war, and hasnt ever gotten around to upping it Unless rates are Increased, undoubtedly the treasury will have to shell out in future years, when the system gets into full swing. And if farmers and other presently uninsured work ers are brought In undoubtedly the treasury will have to shell out more, There are 7,148.422 specimens of wildlife In the United States not Louisiana is a land of incredible wildlife as represented by the renatural richness, in its swamps and cently vindicated Esquire magazine but big game animals like deer, bayous, its cane and cotton fields, its lakes and streams, its farms and buffalo and mountain goats. The cities and its people. Here the fish and wildlife service counted beauty and romance of an empire them, canvassing the wide open was formed by the alchemy of time. spaces to do it It was a miracle of chemical comProf. Murray R. Benedict of the binations that brought about the University of California has been dotransmutation of these base metals ing some counting too In the wide into gold. Geologically, the chemist open spaces, or at least down on Nature, with pestle and mortar, the farm, and he came up with the mixed marine and alluvial sediconclusion that in 1939 more than ments, added the acids of eons, and half the farm owners in the counbrought forth a wondrous combinatry raised less than $750 worth of tion to make the Louisiana of today. products on their land. ConsequentThe extremely fertile top soils, profarmers, and a ly these GULF OF "MEXICO ducing agricultural products and great many other farmers in only valuable forests, are the states slightly higher income brackets, basic resources. But beneath the In striking distance of New Orleans, find it almost impossible to save surface are rich deposits of salt, Andrew Jackson, with the Tennesmoney toward the time when they can no longer work. They are harsulphur, petroleum and natural gas. seans, Kentuckians, Creoles and pie Over all hangs a favorable climate, rates, won a great victory at assed by a feeling of economic inwhen they turned, back the with sun and rain proportioned and security the kind of economic intide of Red Coats. Parkenham, the balanced to bless the land. security which President Truman Racially too, Louisiana has had English general, fell fatally woundrecently said was tending to break its mlnglings and infusions. The ed on the battlefield. down family life in this country. Out of a colorful past emerges the Creole is a descendant of the Mr. Truman suggested that perhaps Louisiana of today, tranquil, hosFrench or Spanish settlers. The we ought to have a Bill of Rights in spite of intermixture with pitable and progressive. The chemfor the family as well as for the other nationalities, retains much of ist is still busy there. The laboraindividual. the Spanish. The descendant of the tory of the scientist and the facProfessor Benedict doesnt sugGerman, almost completely ab- tory of the industrialist are collabgest a Bill of Rights for the farmer, sorbed by his Latin neighbors, still orating in a new field of developbut in a pamphlet entitled A Relives above New Orleans on the ment. Louisiana has within its bortirement System for Farmers he ders the raw materials and faciliGerman coast." The does suggest that the farmer be inof English Royalists resides in ties necessary for the successful cluded in the federal social securEast and West Feliciana parishes. operation of chemical industries. ity system. The Russian, as well as the Central Its farms supply cotton, sugar cane, The farmer earning no more than and South American, now makes rice, corn and sweet potatoes. Its $750 from the sale of products would Louisiana his home. The Filipino forests provide many kinds of timworker be listed as a has Manila village, and there is a ber. Its deposits of oil, gas, salt, making an assumed net income of Chinese settlement at Bayou Defon. sulphur, coastal shells, sand, gravJAMES HOUSTON DAVIS $400. He would pay into the social el and other minerals are abundant. It is doubtful that a Governor of Louisiana security fund 2 per cent of his inWealth from Waste. Negro can be found in the state. Davis was born on Jimmie come each year, and to make the Two centuries of linguistic interWallboard is made of once use- hill farm in the Beech Springs com. yearly payments a little easier to course have modified the French less sugar cane pulp, rubber from inunity of Jackson Parish. He is a take, the farmer would use a stamp dialects of the Creole and Acadian, petroleum and carbon black from graduate of Louisiana State univer- book, buying social security stamps with words and inflections borrowed natural gas. Chemical and sciensity. Former school teacher, court to paste in whenever he had some Other Aid from the English, German, Negro tific research has opened new fields clerk, Shreveport police commisNow Tops Billion spare cash. and Indian neighbor. There are for plastic and synthetic manufacsioner and public service commiswho earn $750 or more Farmers Consider what the government is Negroes who cannot speak English, ture, using Louisianas great re- sioner, he was elected governor in can follow the same procedure. out to support aged already manuAnglo-Saxo- n mills Seven sources. Idioms and paper yet early 194. His hobbies are music, sing- They are given a standard deduc- persons handing not covered by social sefrom pulp wood, ing, fishing and hunting. expressions may be heard in their facture newsprint tion based on how much they earn. curity. The costs of e assistarchaic purity in some sections of salt cake and other chemicals. CookFor example, those farmers earn- ance and aid to dependent children 9s the state. Regardless of the dialect, ing oil, stock feed, rayon, film, celing between $750 and $1,000 get a from 1933 to 1944, to the country, n in Louisiana lophane, celluloid, felts, surgical words are $300 deduction; theres a $400 deadded up to a tidy billion dollars. And and pleasant to the ear. dressings and glycerine are production for the next highest group costs will continue to go up as the is cottonseed. from duced Under Many Flags. Sugar and so on. They take their deducaverage age of the population rises, Louisiana has known many gov- made from sorghum and countless tion, make the simple report of net All of which means the government of rice are being utilernments and many flags. DiscovMark Twain spoke of the pom-pan- o income, and thats that. has dispensed almost a billion dolized. ered in 1528 by the Spanish exBut some farmers may insist that lars in cooked in Louisiana as being alcharity to persons who industrial and 1682 in LaSalle Starch, glue Narvaex, plorer delicious as the less criminal their expenses exceed the deduction might, had they been able to make claimed the territory in the name cohol are manufactured from sweet forms of sin. William Makepeace allowed them. Thats okay with Mr. regular social security contributions He later attempted of France. potatoes. Oil from the tung tree is Thackery found New Orleans the Benedict. For them, he would produring their working years, have city of the world where you can eat vide a separate form so the farmer been able to get along without such and drink the most and suffer the could list his actual expenses and charity. Irvin S. Cobb found New deduct them. least. Other opponents foresee the 4 Orleans bouillabaisse, a fish chowV- farmer bogged down in an avaFarm Hands der, unexcelled. lanche of government questionThe people of Louisiana set tables Also Covered naires, financial reports, lists, 4 of luscious Creole dishes that have All this applies to ledgers and statistics, should he evolved over a period of more than '1 be made a participating mem-- , Bat perhaps the farm owni two centuries and present a triumf, her of the social security syser, Jake Dnncan, has a helper, r, phant synthesis of the French love tem. But under Mr. Benedicts Tom. Tom Is a farm M. '$ for delicacies and the Spanish taste and if Mr. Benedict has his plan, the farmers duties to his : for pungent seasoning. While Creole like way, farm government where social securcooking today is found at its best Tom would be treated mneb nr , ity is concerned are a minimum. in the vicinity of New Orleans and He wont have to keep detailed the same as industrial workers, in the Teche country, its excellencies Insofar as social security Is confarm records. The reports he it : if may be enjoyed throughout Louisidoes have to make are simple cerned. That means Jake, the ' ana wherever the French influence 1 ones. As a matter of fact, if employer would deduct Toms 1 has penetrated. cent from his wages, add he uses the stamp plan to take per In the preparation of sea food care of his employees social sehis own payment of 1 per cent Creole cuisine is at its best. Oysters, to Toms 1 per cent and trans payments, he wont have curity with crabs and shrimp, are cooked at as much paper work as indusmlt to the government J in gumbo and it is said that a the end of each quarter, the trial or professional employers Creole puts everything into gumbo - funds and a certified statement , have. t to except the Creole! In addition of wages paid. Still another argument is adV 4 sea food, game and domestic fowl, Here Mr. Benedict wants vanced by people who predict there are varieties of roasts and to save again, the ,.4 Jake, employer, from gloomily that If workers are asCANAL STREET . . . With modern New Orleans on the left and ancient other elaborate dishes. at the rolltop desk sured of a regular Income from spent long nights Rice is used by Louisianans as New Orleans on the right. social security after retirement, pouring over social security recIrish potatoes are used elsewhere. ords. He suggests as one way to they wont work; they wont save colonization with 280 men, who per- used in making paints, varnishes, Hominy grits is to breakfast what eliminate paper work, a stamp book during the years they can work. ished with him. The colonial period linoleum and waterproof materials. rice is to dinner. The perfect comTom would get a stamp Mr. Benedict thinks that argusystem. to beans into a Creole meal is Creole book from the are converted plasplement comprises the French domination Soy office. Each time ment is as ancient as the reconpost down to 1769, Spanish domination tics. Collection of peat moss is dripped coffee although a taste for Jake pays Tom off, Jake would af- structed dodo in the Smithsonian infrom 1769 to 1803, when there was simple and cheap. Lime, both hy- it has to be acquired since it is fix and cancel the proper stamps. stitution. Social security benefits, as from blacker and stronger than that used a brief period of French rule again. drate and caustic, is made Thats a painless way of recording set up now, will certainly not buy in 1803 oyster and clam shells. Rice hulls in other states. The Louisiana Purchase payments. retiring oldsters any mink coats or As one goes farther north in Loubrought the region under the Stars make an excellent insulant. There Mr. Benedict think that doesnt Cadillac coupes. The benefits are in the isiana the cooking more and more and Stripes. Louisiana joined the are fabulous resources nine million farmers and farm- very modest ones. Any sensible perSouth 1861 coastal in the resembles Gulf other of state's that in with waters, genyielding Confederacy workers can be brought into the so- son can see hell have to southern states, and figured prom- annual harvests of sea food. eral, but there are few places cial security system overnight. other resources besides have some social seEven with accelerated industrialiwhere Creole methods have not had Neither inently in the Civil war. does he predict smooth curity If he wants to live at any In of the charm Louisiana and some influence. the of Louisiana was zation, Statehood vicinity granted sailing right from the start if they level above the barest minimum of as the War of 1812 began. Not the its people remains unchanged. Mag- Natchitoches, the Spanish influence were brought in. It will take time subsistence when he reaches retireleast picturesque of those who nolia trees in the moonlight, soft is particularly noticeable. The Mon- and a educational proment age. HeD save money, try to fought at the Battle of New Orleans voices to speak of romance, gayety roe area is famous for its barbeaccumulate gram. property, perhaps carry was Jean Lafitte, the pirate, and and color in recreations and cele- cues. Usually 15 or more ingrediThe idea of including farmprivate business insurance too. But his crew. Lafitte, upon whose head brations, unparalleled beauty and ents are used in preparing sauces ers under the social security if he cant save, and its not only that is Louisiana. And for barbecued metts. A popular a price had been set by Louisiana serenity the farmers who cant, social seplan Is not a new one. Most of country dish of this section is authorities, spurned British gold that it will remain: a good place the Important farm organizabenefits in later years may curity corn and and oiTered to guide warships with- - to visit a better place to live. pot liquor pone. tions have okayed the idea; both keep him from becoming a public candidates en- presidential charge. INDUSTRIAL LOUISIANA " y. V, In sharp contrast to Louisianas n agricultural importance Bau is its extensive Industrial developge ment. This is a section of the huge 4t j, Nv vWC. refinery of the Standard Oil comWhile the troubles of this world During the senate questioning of pany at Bat Rouge. our scientists insist on bor- Edwin W. Pauley (nominated for continue, At the beginning of the present ' rowing more, even if they have to undersecretary of the navy) former century, Louisiana embarked npon to do it. I suppose Interior Secretary Ickes managed to an era of intensive industrial go to the moon anoint Pauleys head with oil and as soon as the United Nations abolI ' growth. Discovery and development ishes war, well to have not in the biblical sense. begin of abundant raw material resulted trouble with the Martians, and it In the establishment over the state U1 take another couple of millenia Better Mouse Trap department of refineries, chemical plants and we get the United Planets to Latest invention before a comb tha other large industrial units. sit down and talk things over sprays hair tonic as it combs. Only the bald can live the simple life. peaceably. delta. do not Fit the muslin smoothly but o f Inch seams and around the spring seat, as at A. Cut as at B. Mark each piece with an arrow to show which way the grain of the goods should run. The larger sketch shows the pattern pinned on the slip cover fabric ready for cutting. 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